Interviewer instructions
Section 5: Fertility
[Females ages 14 to 49]
5.91 General
This section is comprised of question 5.1 through 5.11, and the information is to be completed only for females ages 14 to 49. The questions are of a very personal nature and you must assure the respondent that this type of information is very crucial to population/planning, since it provided very useful indicators of population growth. Be very careful when asking the questions from young women. In all instances, you must assure the parents and the youth how important these questions are to the study of and planning for issues related to reproductive health among young people. Reassure them of the confidentiality clause regarding Census data collection
These questions are related to the number of live-born children a woman has had. Some women might tend to exclude children who were born alive but subsequently died. These children are not to be excluded from the count. A live birth is the product of a pregnancy that shows some sign of life after expulsion, even if [the child] dies a few minutes after.
5.97 Question 5.6: Live births and infant deaths in the past 12 months
You need to pay close attention to the answers given for questions 5.1 through 5.5 before asking question 5.6. If [the woman] has had live-born children, you need to be mindful in particular to the answer in Q5.5, which asks for age of mother at birth of her last child. Based on this answer, you might be able to tell if there was a birth in the past 12 months. Even so, you must ask Q5.6 as a check on Q5.5.
